On 27/02/2009, Caryn Schutzler wrote:

Just curious if I am the only one or if others received a link to a "Tripod Confirmation Form"...

Are we supposed to receive solicitations through Tweeters or is there any way to filter this?

This is a phish intended to steal Tripod account info, and unless I'm not getting all of the list messages (unlikely), it did NOT come through the list, but to you directly. It probably came the same way as many phishes and other malware--from someone's infected windows pc that has coopted the infectee's address book, and quite possibly existing Subject lines and even message bodies. You can track it back to the infectee's isp by deciphering the complete mail headers, but I've almost never had any luck tracking this junk back to the actual infectee. It might be a current tweeters subscriber, but not necessarily.

The brief blurb at tripod: <http://club.tripod.com/>

Never pay any attention to any email message (or phone call) that tells you to update your information, especially if they tell you to click on a link to go to the page. If you think something might be legit (such as you have an active account with the company/website), then initiate contact by typing in the site's address by hand (don't copy from the mail message!), and ask them if they really sent any such thing.
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